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Hatewatch is managed by the staff of the Intelligence Report, an investigative magazine published by the Alabama-based civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center.
Day laborer controversy hits Home Depot
Morning after morning in city after city, contractors as well as homeowners needing an extra hand or two drive up to a Home Depot and hire laborers to paint walls, nail down roofing or trim branches, usually for $8 to $10 an hour. Not only has this caused friction between the stores and neighboring businesses and homeowners who do not want the men around, but it has also thrust the company into the nationwide debate about what to do about these workers, the majority of them illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America…
Hispanics and immigrants clash
…Friction over lifestyle and culture plays out in neighborhoods across the Valley as Latinos and recently arrived immigrants come face-to-face with each other. Many of them often share skin color and last names, but the similarities sometimes end there…
Colorado lawmakers join armed patrols
The Three Amigos — Colorado state Reps. Dave Schultheis, Jim Welker and Bill Crane — have finished their cowboys-and-Mexicans tour of the Arizona-Mexico border and learned many things, including:
- Night goggles are way cool.
- Riding in a convoy of Hummers is even cooler.
- And nothing, when you get right down it, beats packing heat while on border patrol.
Dispute over “MexDonald’s” study supersized
Internal disputes in the state’s most vocal organization seeking tougher immigration laws have pushed it to the brink of disintegration.
Immigration becomes issue in suburbs
Suburban politicians once had to master a small but demanding catalog of local issues. Taxes, garbage, crime and schools were always the big ones. But recently a volatile new issue has been showing up on the local meet-the-candidate circuit, and it is pretty much the opposite of the familiar and the local. It is illegal immigration.
Minuteman minstrel puts out call
… “The Minutemen don’t just watch the borders, they like to play the music,” says Luca Zanna, a poet, songwriter (see “Pancho Villa Stops Here”), recent immigrant from Rome and now proud American citizen. And what kind of music? “Yankee Doodles,” he replies, without a touch of irony breaking through his Italian accent. “A hard-rock version.”…
Fear, frustration central to anti-immigration movement
…Opposition to illegal immigration and support for restricting levels of legal migration aren’t new. But they increasingly are organized and have moved from the edge of the political mainstream to the center of the debate…
Minutemen scan for terrorists from the north
Patriots to some and hate group to others, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps is launching a month-long vigil along America’s northern border this weekend, expanding its operations to demand heightened security at U.S. borders…
‘MexDonalds’ researcher gets pied
The co-founder of an anti-immigration group in Connecticut demanded Wednesday that government officials investigate the “disproportionate” hiring of “Hispanics” at McDonald’s restaurants after presenting what he had privately described to group members as his “MexDonald’s” study.
California Minutemen continue patrols despite opposition
Many of the hundreds who make up the self-appointed civilian patrols monitoring the border to deter smuggling of people and drugs are unemployed or underemployed ex-military men who have long resented Mexicans who come to the United States illegally and, in their view, compete for jobs, crowd hospitals and schools and threaten English as the nation’s dominant language…